CVE-2024-34506

Name	CVE-2024-34506
Description	An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-3796-1, DSA-5651-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mediawiki (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	1:1.39.17-1+deb12u2	fixed
	trixie (security), trixie	1:1.43.9+dfsg-1~deb13u1	fixed
	forky, sid	1:1.43.9+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
mediawiki	source	buster	1:1.31.16-1+deb10u8	DLA-3796-1
mediawiki	source	bullseye	1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2	DSA-5651-1
mediawiki	source	bookworm	1:1.39.7-1~deb12u1	DSA-5651-1
mediawiki	source	(unstable)	1:1.39.7-1

Notes

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/V3WXEPXV2DU6WTVEKK4XHW4QXD5OFKD7/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357760
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1015423